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| French accents | ||
| Entering accents with a PC | ||
| Entering accents with a Mac | ||
| HTML & other internet languages | ||
French accents |
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In this course, we will be making use of the the course bulletin board, where messages and written assignments should be posted. In writing, accents are required.The required written accents are: |
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| Accents over capitalized letters are not necessary and you don't need to use them (French spelling checkers will often suggest accented capitals, and it is OK to leave them). |
| The course CUBBoard will recognize all of these accents. (Incidentally, many email readers, including CUBMail and Pine, do not recognize these characters. If you would like to send and receive email with French accents, you should consider using Netscape's Messenger.) Although the CUBBoard does recognize characters with French accents, entering them into your document is sometimes a little difficult... |
PC |
| Using a built-in keyboard |
| The best way to generate accents using a PC is probably to switch the keyboard settings to reflect the standard French keyboard layout. You might want to use stickers to indicate which keys are which, since the French keyboard is significantly different from the standard U.S. keyboard. Check your computer's Settings folder to see if this option is available. |
| Using Extended ASCII characters |
| You can insert characters with accents in an IBM compatible PC environment using the Extended ASCII Character Set. These characters are usually generated by holding down the "ALT" key and typing in a three-digit numeric code USING THE NUMERIC KEYPAD on the right side of your keyboard. For example, ALT+ 0233 will produce "é" For a complete table of these codes, click here. |
| Using ASCII codes is, unfortunately, the option you will need to use if you are typing directly into the CUBBoard from a PC, unless you have changed the keyboard to a French keyboard. |
| Using Microsoft Word |
| You can use Microsoft Word (or your favorite word processor) to write and edit your document, and then paste it into the CUBBoard. There are many pluses--you can take advantages of the word processor's spelling features (if French dictionaries are included) and search and replace functions. If you cut and paste a Microsoft Word document with accents into a bulletin board posting, the accents should show up. |
| Microsoft Word will allow you to insert characters with accents by clicking Insert-Symbol. Even better, however, are the keyboard shortcuts available since Word 97: |
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Macintosh |
| Using a built-in keyboard |
| You can switch the keyboard settings in your Macintosh to reflect the standard French keyboard layout. You might want to use stickers to indicate which keys are which, since the French keyboard is significantly different from the standard U.S. keyboard. Check Control Panels-Keyboard in your computer's Apple Menu to see if this option is available. |
| Using the Option Key |
| You can also generate all the characters you need in Macintosh by using the "Option"("Alt") key. To generate accents, you generally press an Option key and another key together to generate the accent, and then type the letter which contains the accent: |
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Writing in HTML & Other Internet Languages |
| If you are writing in HTML, cutting and pasting text from another document (for example, a Microsoft Word document) can often result in loss or distortion of accents. You can use special codes to generate diacritics in your HTML documents. For example, the combination... |
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produces é à è ù â ê î ô û ä ë ü ç
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| For further information, check out Webmonkey Guides for using the Web, including HTML code cheat sheets |
| Thanks to Mary Helen Dupree for help with this page! |